Congratulations to Korbel faculty @marieberry.bsky.social and @kaitsims.bsky.social who received new funding to advance their research! We’re thrilled to see their ideas making a lasting impact!

Hanging out with rad researchers talking about incarceration and inequality all day today and tomorrow. Sometimes my job is rad as hell

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Friends! Do you have a book about public/social policy you're proud of or excited by? I'm designing a book report section in my upcoming undergrad Public Policy for Social Welfare course--feel free to share recommendations (including self-promo!) for me to add to my list of choices. Thanks!

ope actually had two articles drop today... 🚨new publication alert!🚨 My piece with Kate Walsh and Nicole Meyer just posted at Violence Against Women! doi.org/10.1177/1077...

🚨new publication alert!🚨 Over the last four years, I've been collaborating with Kate Walsh and Mariel Barnes @ UW-Madison on a large-scale evaluation of a DV Housing First pilot program at 9 service providers in the state. doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Say it louder Nashville

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Time-sensitive question: best tracker for disappeared federal data? Need to communicate volume for a European audience

taking suggestions for my weekly 'i finished the mountain of grading i created for myself' friday treat

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

States are facing catastrophic SNAP cuts from the Big Beautiful Bill--North Carolina is saying they may shutter their SNAP program. The Bill cuts the budget to administer SNAP, charges states billions for making administrative mistakes, all while adding even more admin complexity to the program.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

we've reached the point where the only thing that will get me through grading is promising myself a little treat for every five assignments i finish

hi friends of #academicsky -- I know many of y'all host podcasts, and I'd love to hear more about the logistics of how you fund/produce/distribute those! Any retweets/comments tagging someone are super helpful!

Start your week with a new read: Korbel Professor @kaitsims.bsky.social on the potential impacts of global climate change on patterns of domestic violence.

You will be totally unsurprised that @jamellebouie.net has written the most sensible & accurate take on all of this. We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. Political violence is bad & should be condemned. And far right authoritarianism is bad & should be condemned.

🚨new pub alert!🚨 Absolutely thrilled that my new paper with Julia Sbroglio and Holly Gibbs is published at the Review of Economics of the Household. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

god it's a weird day to teach on a college campus

Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date to Sept 9 over 2024. The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Some big #NumbersDay releases today—Just a reminder that the Census data are incredibly valuable. We get transparent and non-politicized data to make informed decisions about what policies are delivering economic security for working people.

Donny when firing the bls head doesn’t stop them from announcing bad jobs numbers

two acceptances within a week, brb while i have self esteem for like ten whole minutes

Of course many of the voices on Bluesky aren't persuasive to the people in the center or on the right! People with power and privilege don't love criticism and calls for them to share/give up some of that power and privilege.

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

I'm guessing journos are going to stop asking me why the "hard data" are so good, given the economic news has been so grim. The lesson I hope they draw is an eternal one: Bad policy leads to bad outcomes, but the actual economy doesn't move at the pace of the political cycle.

Making history for a great cause‼️ I am swimming the Chicago River on Sept 21 - FIRST TIME IN 100 YEARS - for ALS research & swim lessons for Chicago kids. 🙏🏼 Help me reach my goal 💪🏼 Donte & repost 🔂 runsignup.com/EJQ-CRS-ALS #ChicagoRiverSwim #ALS #ChicagoKids 🏊‍♂️🌊🏙️

Guns and cars are the two biggest culprits here. Which means that we could go a long way towards closing these gaps by investing in public transit and better regulating access to firearms.

Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

friends of #econsky, for *waves hands* reasons I have to prep a new mini module on tariffs at the ug and MPP levels (non technical, very applied) Any readings, videos, resources, handy graphics, etc you can point me to would be greatly appreciated 🫡

"The cases cited by the Trump administration are not the norm," said Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social who studied the effects of ILs' bail reform law. "The vast majority of the time in Illinois, everything turned out fine when defendants in low-level criminal cases were allowed to go home without bail."

Academic rigor and human compassion are not mutually exclusive. Some people confuse rigor with lack of compassion because they don’t understand what rigor means.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

I am unfortunately not kidding when I say I think explaining the de minimus exemption will radicalize tens of thousands of internet girlies

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed. "Deeply saddened" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

I never appreciate the days without Taylor Swift eating up all of the media airspace until she’s back

love to live in 2025

#IStandWithDrLisaCook #EconSky

Start of the week reminder that the biggest public health story in America is that we’re building concentration camps

As someone who has closely followed the effects of ChatGPT on people's mental health, the most shocking thing about this story is that it's *the first* wrongful death suit.

Dc adjacent folks, send your favorite district area food delivery recs 🙏

There is a reason the bill of rights specifically calls out cruelty. I want to be governed without cruelty. I want to live in a world that avoids cruelty. But the cruelty is the point for this admin.